The musical pretensions of Muse

“The group Muse in the Stade de Suisse brought a new dimension to the stadium rock show. The sensuality is still on track – but not the fun.

The branch of the stadium Rocks is a unique discipline in the Wall Came Down. This is about much more than the noble music scene. It is a demonstration of power, the value of a tape is measured in the number of tons of light material, which she drags around the world. In this competition the staging occupied the British group Muse, who was still admire to ten years ago as a modest, shy indie hope in the Fribourg Frison, now a top position.

The stage-building, they at the start of their guild arena tour with 49 semi-trailers (so that they are only 11 semi-trailer truck behind the Rolling Stones) to Bern has had to create projects, loose on the roof of the Stade de Suisse, warned in his futuristic and functional architecture of modern station buildings of medium-sized Swiss cities – with the difference that the muse-station mutated in the night of impressive flashing lights monument, which also ever used as a launching pad of a flying saucer.

The concert opener turns also to the policy group show of force: In a casting 60 hobby demonstrators were chosen, the rioting is now wrapped up on the stage may, with banners, suggesting the Rebellion, yet so dull is that in the end nothing but the pure gesture remains . “You and I must fight for our rights” is, as written about – phrases for everything and nothing. Whether behind it is a subversive idea, or merely a parody Subversive again, that’s when this group is no longer identify as accurately. Similarly unclear was long time whether it muse with her latest record “The Resistance” is really been serious, has on what the band from the English Teignmouth the big gestures overstates the rock into a caricature, a sort queenesker Bohemian-Rhapsody-megalomania intimacy .

to close to the gigantism after, the muse during the performance at the Stade de Suisse indulge an ironic refraction seems unlikely. And the beauty is that it can not krummnehmen them once. The trio, which is reinforced with only one acting in the background auxiliary keyboardist, sounds like a monstrous rock big band, every note gleams in breathtaking bombast, every melody is inflated to the anthem, every guitar chord to the manifesto. And when the whole muscle man – culminating in the musical pretension, “United States of Eurasia” threat – losing its effect, dims muse down the production with the soulful adaptation of “Feeling Good” or the poppy “Undisclosed Desires” temporary, the latter at least offered to a small hydraulic roll spaceship – too modest if one is then not give it. But this is only the start to further atrocities. In “Starlight” Muse reach a massive turgid, as they were able to accomplish U2 not even in their most brilliant periods, and for the final out, the band is still not possible to hold a tooth. Muse 2010′s have become megalomania, as it will be hard to beat. And even if there any sensuality hopelessly by the wayside, stadium rock has rarely made more fun.”